Life has not been kind to John Rust and the latest
DWI stop is not going to help matters in The Orphan’s Guilt: A Joe
Gunther Novel by Archer Mayor. The arrest brought his lawyer, Scott
Jezek, into his latest case. While John Rust is looking at suspension of his
driving privileges and jail time, the background of why it happened is
important.
Hours earlier that same day before he was arrested, John’s
brother, Peter died. He was twenty-eight, severely disabled, and in a near
vegetative state at death. For more than ten years, John Rust had cared for his
brother under difficult and complicated circumstances. Attorney Jezek is
looking at that background to try and figure out a way to blunt the prosecutorial
zeal of the state’s It is an election year and being tough on drunk driving
seems to be his theme this election year as he tries to convince voters to
support him. Jezek wants private investigator Sally Kravitz to look at all the
footage of the DUI arrest and see if she sees anything they can use. She does.
Peter’s death also eventually comes to the attention
of the Vermont Bureau of Investigation. That happens because Sally Kravitz
unearths several things including the possibility that the death of Peter could
be the final act in a homicide case that stretches back nearly thirty years. It
may be nothing and easily explained or it could be murder. Joe Gunther and his
team go to work to prove it one way or another. All cold cases are tough, but
this is going to be very difficult.
The latest in
a very long running series, The Orphan’s Guilt: A Joe Gunther Novel
by Archer Mayor is another solidly good read. As always in each installment of
this series, multiple mysteries and cases are at work. So too are the ongoing
relationships at work and at home between the various characters. These reads
are part mystery, part police procedural, and part drama and that mix varies in
each book. The result is a consistently engaging and interesting series that is
always well worth your time. So too is The Orphan’s Guilt.
The Orphan’s
Guilt: A Joe Gunther Novel
Archer Mayor
Minotaur Books
September 2020
ISBN#
978-1-250-22414-9
Hardback (also
available in audio and eBook formats)
288 Pages
Material supplied by my childhood reading gateway,
Audelia Branch of the Dallas Public Library System
Kevin R. Tipple ©2021
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